"In those days, the river was full of ships and stevedores...": An Exhibit Update!
Dr. Robert Cangelosi grew up in the New Orleans French Quarter in the 1930s and 40s when it was still a largely Sicilian neighborhood, nicknamed Piccolo Palermo. In the below clip from a recent oral history interview, Dr. Cangelosi discusses helping out at his grandparents’ Decatur Street grocery store as a young boy and how his grandfather allowed neighborhood regulars to pay on a monthly credit system. Our upcoming exhibit, Piccolo Palermo: The Sicilian Immigrant Experience
